Angel Hair falling from the heavens or UFOs?

France in the fifties was overwhelmed with UFO reports. One of the lesser known and more mysteries anomalies connected to this wave was the collection of white fibrous material that fell from the heavens. Dubbed Angel Hair because it falls from the sky, it was seen in conjunction with UFO sightings, but more often without. Even the Condon Report, a UFO study done by the University of Colorado in the late sixties at the behest of the U.S. Air Force, examined the issue. They described angel hair as “fibrous material which falls in large quantities, but is unstable and disintegrates and vanishes soon after falling.”

One of the earlier more fantastic reports of angel hair took place in Oloron, France in October of 1952. According to several witnesses they saw a large cylinder in the sky at a 45 degree angle. Below it was a cloud and witnesses could also make out a mass of smaller objects. Using opera glasses they could see that these smaller objects were red spheres surrounded by a yellow ring. Their movements were described as “following a broken path characterized in general by rapid and short zigzags. When two saucers drew away from one another, a whitish streak, like an electric arc, was produced between them.” Witnesses estimated there were about 30 of these objects. Falling from these objects was a white hair-like substance. When picked up and rolled into a ball it turned into gelatin and then disappeared. This entire scenario repeated itself 10 days later in Gaillac, France.

Since these early recollections, angel hair events have been reported sporadically. Brian Boldman wrote an extensive article on the angel hair phenomenon for the International UFO Reporter in their fall 2001 issue. His research demonstrated that during a famous UFO wave in 1973, there was also an increase in angel hair reports. The peak of the UFO wave was on October 18 on which date there were also five angel hair reports. One of the cases was from Hamilton, Illinois. Witnesses reported seeing two a large oval/oblong gray objects. The second one appeared to be covered in cobwebs. 15 minutes after the sighting witnesses found cotton-like material that “became a small ball which melted as it was touched.”

The Condon Report’s analysis of the angel hair covered incidents from 1952 through 1955, and referred to a report which suggested that the majority of the phenomena was caused by spiders. Some spiders create webs that they use to glide through the air. A medical doctor in France made the same assumptions about the French cases, although he acknowledged that he could not explain the UFO sightings. The Condon Report also conceded, “in other cases, the composition or origin of the “angels hair” is uncertain.”

The Condon Report included analysis on angel hair samples which their team had received. They found these samples to be “space grass”, which they described as, “aluminum “chaff” of the various sizes and types used by military aircraft to confuse tracking radar…” Their report ends on this note.

Angel Hair samples (image credit: Brian Boldman)

Boldman’s report was not able to explain the phenomenon away so easily. He noted that in several cases from Australia to Italy to Argentina, samples were analyzed and found to be made up of boron, silicon, magnesium and calcium. He also found cases in which angel hair was found to be radioactive. One case in February of 1995 in Horsehead, New York it was assumed that the radioactive angel hair was cotton debris from a nuclear test three days prior in Nevada.

Boldman concluded that there really is a mystery here, and that the correlation between the UFO waves and angel hair reports could not be ignored. The most recent report of angel hair like substance comes from Arizona. A witness reported to MUFON on October 10, 2010 that “for three days in a row a yarn type material fell from the sky, but is only visible hanging off of objects when the sun is low in the sky.”

This appears to be another phenomenon that can be listed as one that is unresolved and thus far the answers that have been found only lead to more questions. The best we can hope is that witnesses that find this material quickly get a hold of researchers (such as Open Minds) as quickly as possible. If Boldman is correct, the final results could be remarkable.

About Alejandro Rojas

Alejandro Rojas is a radio host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds magazine as well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with several appearances on Coast to Coast AM.

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The “angel hair” collected from around Whitsett elementary school was analyzed by a local fabric manufacturer since it was thought to be a synthetic fiber. It was found to be a protein matter, not known to be any kind of synthetic substance “known to man”. One of the children at the elementary school tasted the “stuff” and is reported to have said that it tasted “salty”. A salty protein substance would offer the Israelis a nutritious “manna” from heaven to sustain them on their journey through the desert.

The cloud observed to form between the cherubim could have been a way to dispose of the aliens’ bodily waste. Perhaps it was a little like the foul smelling froth which came from the “wound” of the one that landed near Flat Mesa, Nevada. The winged cherubim could be placed on the Ark to remind other humans that these “aliens” could fly like “angels” if they so chose, and that there were two of them in the Ark.

I just witnessed a single strand of this “angel hair” fall from the sky. I took pics, picked it up with a stick and put it in a jar. It looks exactly like the ones in the pics in this article. It fell about 20 minutes after a fast moving jet leaving a bright contrail passed above my location. Coincidence?

I have some interesting observations from my own experience. In 1977 in South Auckland New Zealand I saw a triangular object travelling from South to North. Moments later my property and others around it were festooned with “angels hair.” As with all other reports the material was very difficult to gather. Nonetheless, I was able to gather some which was sent off to the government laboratory. The analysis was, not surprisingly, cob webs which is if course complete rubbish. The point I wish to make is that it could not have come from the craft travelling overhead. Why? two reasons, it appeared seconds after the craft flew over and it only fell in a relatively small area, maybe 5 acres. Had it come from the craft it would have taken much longer to descend and it would have been dispersed over a much larger area. Given this and attempting to apply reverse logic, what activity can convert the various components of air into a semi solid matter and then back into gas within a few minutes? Answer, I have no idea but I need a physicist to tell me if this is even possible within the laws of physics because if it is, it would appear to be a more logical answer to the angels hair phenomenon than currently exists and may just give a clue to the power source of these interesting craft.

For certain EM and electrostatic air vehicles the ambient atmosphere must be charged artificially for operating electrostatic charged air vehicles in a certain area, because the natural space charge is not sufficient enough.

Charging artificially the atmosphere can be accomplished with natural or artificial substances (Spinngut), making the atmosphere charged positive or negative. Spinng fibres can also be coated with a radioactive substance and have different colors in red or white.

First trials were conducted during WW II in Germany for several electrostatic air vehicles in various shapes, like spheres, cylinders, cones and the like.

These flying bodies got known in the propaganda as “Foo-Fighters”.

Such angel hair can also be used to influence the weather and producing artificial clouds or fog too, obscuring i.e. a given target by artificial fog.

KPR
Book-author of various books on secret and hidden air- and space technology